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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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Brian Griffin
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Nice!
Sounds like you're running bad minions and/or too low of a curve tbh
Nice, dam everyone doing so well in Arena gave it a break for a few weeks and just doing Daily's and Hunter for quick gold, might give it another try and see if I can get on average more then 4 wins >.>. Probably my fault for doing Arena's on my mobile and not the Laptop with DeckTracker.
I've got a bad habit of always wanting to clear the board. I gave up tempo and board to sack both of my Fireguard Destroyers into Dr. Boom when I should have just went face and forced him to deal with my threats.
I'd completely dominated him the entire game, but that one Boom and my misplay cost me the match - well, that and Forked Lightning missing Boom (1/3 chance).
I like the atmosphere behind Shaman, but I feel like it needs some work. When you get the totem you want, it's awesome, but you really need some RL luck to make some of the cards work. The difference between a 4/6 and 7/6 Fire Destroyer is pretty big.
Maybe it's my fault for playing Forked Lightning....
Also, pulled a Baron Geddon today when all I want is a Ysera (or a Sylvanas.) Can I use this guy for anything? I'm a Control player at heart.
I'd completely dominated him the entire game, but that one Boom and my misplay cost me the match - well, that and Forked Lightning missing Boom (1/3 chance).
I like the atmosphere behind Shaman, but I feel like it needs some work. When you get the totem you want, it's awesome, but you really need some RL luck to make some of the cards work. The difference between a 4/6 and 7/6 Fire Destroyer is pretty big.
Maybe it's my fault for playing Forked Lightning....
Also, pulled a Baron Geddon today when all I want is a Ysera (or a Sylvanas.) Can I use this guy for anything? I'm a Control player at heart.
I just had to share this anecdote:
I'm playing Control (Giants) Mage vs. Control Warrior. After YOLOing out 4 Molten Giants (3 taunted) on a turn and getting Brawled the next turn, the warrior starts taunting me. He gets me down to 15, and kills off my Dr Boom with the first hit of his Death's Bite (while I had a Duplicate up), leaving my two Boom Bots. His next turn he plays Grommash, thinking he has me dead to rights. Two 4-point Boom Bots to Grommash's face and two more Dr Booms later, he concedes.
This shit is balanced, B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D! ;D
I'm playing Control (Giants) Mage vs. Control Warrior. After YOLOing out 4 Molten Giants (3 taunted) on a turn and getting Brawled the next turn, the warrior starts taunting me. He gets me down to 15, and kills off my Dr Boom with the first hit of his Death's Bite (while I had a Duplicate up), leaving my two Boom Bots. His next turn he plays Grommash, thinking he has me dead to rights. Two 4-point Boom Bots to Grommash's face and two more Dr Booms later, he concedes.
This shit is balanced, B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D! ;D
I like playing at my rank (around 17~18.) Once I get around 15, it starts turning in Dr. Boom all night long. At least at the higher ranks, some of my jankier stuff like Reincarnate Shaman, Baron Riverdale / Death Rattle, and Dragon Rogue has a chance...
My eyes are open. :/
I'll probably keep playing it though. Reincarnate is too much fun.
RumblingRosco
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I just took a Druid arena deck from 1-2 to 8-2. Will continue in the morning. The damn deck only has one card that costs 6+ mana, and that card is Force of Nature. Late game is tough for me.
Holy crap! Grats!
Sometimes I wonder if it isn't more effective to intentionally lose the first match in Arena. Back in my M:TG days, we'd sometimes choose to lose the first match so we could enter the loser brackets...
NotoriousPUG
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Been using the hybrid hunter to get up to rank 7, but just feel like I've stalled out. Can't beat druid, patron warrior or freeze mage, and coin flip with other hunters. Do pretty well vs warlock, but not seeing a lot of those anymore. What decks are working best right now to from rank 7 to 1?
FiveSix4Three
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I've always heard of people switching to control around rank 5.
Not sure how viable that is now..
I'm at 5 right now mainly doing zoo with some druid sprinkled in. Haven't played to see if I hit a wall there though.
Professor Lich
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If someone made it to Legend with that deck, they'd be the king/queen of HearthStone.
NotoriousPUG
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rangersfan414
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Second match is even better. This whole thing is hilarious!
It's not for the faint of heart. You have to embrace the RNG to live the Shaman life.
It's still my favorite class to play because of the potential for incredible damage bursts early in the game.
Started weaning myself off of Mage and Paladin in Arena. I just don't enjoy those classes that much. Pushing the Summon Recruit button is fun, but otherwise - meh.
Playing as Druid (and I suspect Rogue) in Arena has really taught me to respect the hero ability. I like playing Druid in Constructed (as well as Priest, Shaman, and Rogue) but it just feels like it has so much less of an impact in that format.
Kind of sucks going against Mage, Mage, Mage, Mage, Paladin, Paladin, Paladin, Paladin. The whole thing reminds me of WoW and how classes "aren't balanced around PvE / PvP!"
I don't really care as much about early damage. I prefer to lock down the board and chip away at the enemy. I like how the Taunt, SP, and Healing totems provide subtle buffs that add up over the game. Screw that fire totem guy though.
Playing as Druid (and I suspect Rogue) in Arena has really taught me to respect the hero ability. I like playing Druid in Constructed (as well as Priest, Shaman, and Rogue) but it just feels like it has so much less of an impact in that format.
Kind of sucks going against Mage, Mage, Mage, Mage, Paladin, Paladin, Paladin, Paladin. The whole thing reminds me of WoW and how classes "aren't balanced around PvE / PvP!"
I don't really care as much about early damage. I prefer to lock down the board and chip away at the enemy. I like how the Taunt, SP, and Healing totems provide subtle buffs that add up over the game. Screw that fire totem guy though.
More like Boom worthless trash
Either rescale the deathrattle damage or make the bots 0/1s
Haunted
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Oh I like this idea.
Making bots 0/1s effectively buffs Druid and Warrior because the bots are still a huge threat with those classes because they can be easily activated with Whirlwind/Savage Roar, but it makes Boom useless for other classes.
toddhunter
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My opponent has a Blackwing that has taken 1 point of damage (so a 2/3)
Next turn he plays a Stormwind Champion making it a 3/5.
I silence the Stormwind, it becomes a 2/4.
What?
Next turn he plays a Stormwind Champion making it a 3/5.
I silence the Stormwind, it becomes a 2/4.
What?
Haunted
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Having to activate them with additional cards instead of simply being able to trade still makes them strictly worse than before. It's just less of a nerf for classes that run buffs/damage all spells.
Works as intended. That's how HP buffs work (the +1 max HP buff is also essentially a +1 current HP heal, otherwise silencing Stormwind Champion when there's a 1HP minion on the board would kill that minion). Also from what you're saying, it should've been a 3/4 with Stormwind Champion on the board.
For other fun Stormwind Champion interactions, try swapping a buffed minion's stats with Crazed Alchemist and see what happens.
toddhunter
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That is the thing.
It attacked into my Warden as a 2/4...then it is a 3/5. How does that work?
EnVy_CaLiBeR
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Just had a match where I had to deal with 3 Dr. Booms and three Dread Infernals against a Mage and I barely came out alive.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Making the boom bots 0/1...
Buffs count as healing.
toddhunter
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ok makes sense now.
Singularity42
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Anyone playing in NA right now that i can spectate?
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FiveSix4Three
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I can hop on for a game or two.
Slow day at work.
five6four3#1543
Slow day at work.
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After getting my ass kicked by Warlock zoo 5 times in a row i can confidently say that Demon zoo is the new cancer, face hunter has been dethroned, everyone plays zoo warlock now. I wish i had the cards to play freeze mage at my current rank.
They definitely need to reduce the damage on the bots. Make it 1-2 if you still want it to be random. 4 damage max is absolutely ridiculous.
Super Nothing
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I started playing Freeze Mage because everyone was talking about all the Zoos they were running into on the ladder, but I've hardly seen any of them. I had to switch over to playing Zoo myself. I'm just now climbing out of the low ranks, so maybe I'll see it more when I get past Rank 10.
I got hit in the face for 7 damage from Boom Bots at least 3 different times last night. It cost me the game every single time.
Yes, the meta has shifted to zoo warlock.
I don't really feel it's "demon zoo," at least at my rank. The deck includes direwolf alphas, abusive seargents, crawlers, dark iron dwarves, argent defenders, among others; I think of "demon zoo" as having mistress of pains and other demons instead.
I was playing against a guy who played Boom yesterday, and so I made it follow the rules. I had the 3/3 peacekeeper and a 5/5 Dragon Consort out. The bots cleared my board without even needing to use the 1/7 Boom. As you might assume, I lost that game.
I was running into a lot of Zoolock & Hybrid Hunter. So I switched to a midrange reincarnate Shaman. I had a nice 8 game winstreak.
Fireguards proved hard for Zoo to deal with, I imagine it's the 6 health that causes problems. Hybrid hunter was just too slaw and gets controlled by shaman pretty easily, just have to draw that hex for Highmane to win. I was struggling against boards of 1 or low health minions without lightning storm, so I might add a pyromancer if I play the deck again tonight.
Fireguards proved hard for Zoo to deal with, I imagine it's the 6 health that causes problems. Hybrid hunter was just too slaw and gets controlled by shaman pretty easily, just have to draw that hex for Highmane to win. I was struggling against boards of 1 or low health minions without lightning storm, so I might add a pyromancer if I play the deck again tonight.
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